Highlights in this week’s wrap:
A Chinese drugmaker with military ties has sent an experimental Ebola drug to Africa for use by Chinese aid workers and is planning clinical trials there to combat a deadly outbreak of the disease.
Moving on, The Health Department has discovered that 7 000 grade one learners in South African schools have Tuberculosis.
President Jacob Zuma announced that oceans have the potential to create one million jobs and contribute R177 billion to the country’s GDP by 2033.
The Dugong, a dolphin like mammal, is disappearing from our oceans at a rapid rate with only 250 left off the East Coast of Africa.
And finally, KwaZulu-Natal’s Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park has received its first contraceptive vaccine to prevent elephant overpopulation.
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– By Science Wrap: 16 October
